Thanks Trisha, now I need to check if we can buy it here.  Else I'll have to ask someone to walk into a Wallgreen's for me, ship it and I'll buy them something in exchange rather than transferring money.  I'm going to check if Gosh has one as soon as I can get out of this snow and into some town.

Hair - I remembered to VR my hair for the first time in a month.  Washed and conditioned as usual.  I'm on the last bit of my custom blended leave-in.  I have a bottle of cheap leave-in I bought last year and need to get started on soon. 

Now I'm the one with a cold.  Youngest and oldest one's have colds.  Hub might be coming down with a cold.  The middle one's back in school so all in all, we're fine.

Car - We thought the car had brake problems which you obviously don't want when there's ice and snow every where and you live in a hilly area but the automechanics can't find anything wrong and it's been through all tests.  Hub only felt the brakes were soft once but it scared him because he felt it rolling down our driveway.  We live up at the end of a very sharp "L" and some neighbor's son parks on the street and people driving to the daycare at the end of the L before it turns up to our driveway, are always parked on the street in the morning.   Hub's boss said it might've been a bubble in some fluid.  Lets hope that's all.

Make-up - I don't know how seriously I need to take those expiration dates, if any are listed on the cases.  I have a Chanel quad that's over 2 years old and it expired 6 months ago but I'm still using it.  Obviously if my skin or eyes began to react I'd toss it immediately regardless of what it cost my SIL to buy it for me and I once had a purple trio for five years without any problems.  I don't think any of my lipsticks are over 2 years old.  I tend to layer them and I apply them directly from the tube because that's the method that's easiest for me.  I replace mascaras every 6 months which may be a few months over due but I've never had any problems.  I have eyeliners that are 2 years old but perhaps they're okay because I sharpen them?

Our "equivalent" of Wal-Mart is Bilka and the closest thing to Wallgreen's (after checking their homepage) appears to be Matas.  There's more of a chance of hub driving me to Bilka in the near future than us actually getting in to a town where they have Matas.  The nearest town has three or four Matas stores.  Matas has an online shop that has some but not all of their stuff.

Car - Nothing.  Well, I think and hope that's good news.  Hub's not had any trouble aside from that one time but there's a particularly bad snow storm on its way today.  1½ months of this!  I'm so fed up with snow and ice.  I've always loved the look of it but it's so darn inconvenient!   I mind icy roads, sidewalks and slopy trails the most.  I can't go around those slopy trails around here. 

Beauty therapy - I finally finished off one bottle of a medium light pink nailpolish.  Not a bad shade in itself.  I quite like lighter shades on other people (women in most cases) but I only suit the icy pastels if I go for light colors.  This one is neither icy nor bright enough.  I finally unpacked all 15 nailpolishes my mom bought me.  As soon as I use the hot pink up, I can't wait to get started on the deep reds, purple, and wine on my toe nails.  It's impractical on my finger nails.  I'll stick to clear or icy pastels on my fingers most days. 

It's sort of therapeutic to assess my make-up and clear some of it out while discovering new stuff.  I'm grateful for the x-mas calendar with cosmetics and skin stuff and the nailpolishes for x-mas because I can't afford anything for the news 3-4 months. 

I'm tired of most of my lipsticks so I'm having fun custom blending until I've used the oldest ones up.  They're close to two years old.  I got a few new ones last year that I still feel are safe to use for at least another year.

Hair - My scalp is again behaving itself after a few itchy days since I VR yesterday.  My hair seems to like knit hats.  It looks better every time I take my knit hat off.   I worried that this cut wouldn't work with tight knit hats. 

No, I tend to do it theme wise; Colors that suit the season and clothes I wear at the time.  These bottles are just getting old and I really never cared for that one shade on me.  I usually have 2-3 going for toes at a time and 3-5 for finger nails.  Right now I'm using one bottle up on my toes though.

Yesterday - There was a big snow storm which wasn't the worst in our area but it was bad enough for the oldest one's school to send him home with the mini-bus early, so I had to rush down to the kindergarten when the storm was worst and pick the youngest one up in time before the oldest one came home.  Hub and his colleagues decided to leave work early so he picked the middle one up early and brought him home.  On the news they said that many children had, had trouble getting home after school and their parents had trouble getting to them.  We as a nation are running out of road salt.

National road salt situation - People, including hub have resorted to using dishwasher salt so the grocery stores are running low on that too.  This is so typical!  We know that while it usually doesn't snow much in Denmark any more, or at least it's usually very regional.  It's very possible that the entire country can be covered in snow and we don't know for how long so this situation shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.  Ambulance services are understandable poor at present for no fault of theirs.  Same situation with garbage collection.  One of our main islands Bornholm was shut down in every sense last weekend.  Same situation in some rural areas and on small islands and we have at leat 430 named islands in Denmark but I don't know how many are inhabited.  Apparently Sweden have at least 1000 named islands so I guess we're better off than them.

Not all roads are being cleared of snow because most councils (equivalent of public city/county services) have already overspent their road clearing services by several million DDKroner/would be several million $ as well.  I'd rather they leave the snow than walk on ice but I can see why motorists might feel otherwise.  The road salt doesn't always thaw up all the ice.

The oldest one had to wait for his mini bus for ½ hr. this morning and they demand that the kid stands outside his house, at the end of the driveway at 7am in any case.  They won't accept that I look out of the window and send him out as soon as we see the bus round the corner up at the other end of our street.  

Safety concern - If the youngest one (ADHD- but not very hyper/only predictably situational, mainly ADD) has to begin to take the mini bus to school as of next school year, then there's no hell way he'll be allowed to stand and wait for a bus on his own, not even with his brother so I'll have to stand out there with him.  I absolutely don't trust the youngest one in traffic at all.  We and the people at the kindergarten are already making it clear to social services that are finding a school to place him in and to the cab service, that he can't be trusted to walk from our house and down the driveway to the cab on his own nor can he walk from the cab to class or from class to cab or from cab to our house! 

He needs to be escorted from door to door and it's not up for discussion!  I'm glad both the child psychologist and the people who see him daily in kindergarten are supporting us on that stand.

Missing people - I keep hearing helicopters fly over us every few days and every time I've heard a helicopter, I've heard about a missing person on the news in the evening.

Well, I think most Danes feel grateful we don't live on Haiti right now and I know most of us feel guilty about our snow complaint.  I do think the emergency and missing people situation is concerning though.

Wow, sounds like exciting times where you are at!

I hear you about the snow excitement. Pittsburgh gets snow every year, but this weekend we're scheduled for 6 inches and I swear, everybody here is treating this like it's going to be a major disaster. Apparently gas stations were being swamped and the grocery stores were running out of supplies. 

What kind of treatment are you using in your hair? I know that some oils like coconut oil WILL freeze/congeal in the cold weather!

Hair - Only washed and conditioned.  No leave-in.  Think my hair's a bit overconditioned or isn't responding well to the leave-in anymore for one or other reason. 

PC Conservatism - I'm on the dreaded laptop.  There's nothing wrong with the laptop, it's just that I'm resistant to change.  Change isn't usually a problem, I just hate it.  I just don't like the feel of the keyboard and I like a mouse but the mousse we use with the laptop is an old dinosaur.  We've had small, lightweight plastic ones too but I usually lose my temper at some point.   So they never last long.
Fastelavn -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_Denmark
Falls on Valentine's day this year.  We'll be on our way over to my mother if everything goes according to planned.  The two oldest get dressed up for school on Thursday, the youngest one will miss the fastelavn celebration in kindergarten on Monday so he'll have to get in his costume on Sunday at grandma's and have his photo taken there.  We'll have fastelavn's biscuits on Saturday at my MIL's for an early celebration of her erh....73 birthday.  I'm looking forward to the biscuits and food.  I'm not looking forward to the company.   I don't thrive on family dramas like some people do.  Yes, the prospect of a day at the in-laws is already affecting my mood.  I'm sure that's transparent in my posts as well.  It's not my intention to take it out on anyone else.  We don't have the extra energy required for homemade costumes and I don't have any sewing skills though I know that isn't a requirement for all types of costumes.  The boys are happy with the ones we buy each year and they get many play days out of them too so that's fine with me.  The boys like to make their own accessories some years to personalize their costumes or paint their faces.  This year they're all wearing masks though. 

I guess I'd better get started on that calf roast even though it's only 5:30 here.  I definitely need to get going within 30 mins.

Yeah, KNS.  We have a soft keyboard the boys like to use and I'm using an external mouse now.  This is okay.  The world and even I have bigger problems.

Hair - Finally got around to VR whatever was causing that coated feeling completely out of my hair.  Used a bit of the lemon/olive Garnier mask and my hair is fine again.  I'll throw the rest of the leave-in out and move on to the cheap supermarket Nivea leave-in which I think I've finally figured out how to dosage and apply. 

Fragrances - I can't use them directly on my skin anymore but the effect of spritzing into the air and walking through the mist seems to have a longer lasting and not quite as overpowering effect on me.  Something in my chemistry makes most fragrances smell heavier or harsher than they do on other people.  I have dry skin but I thought this was something experienced by people with well hydrated skin.  That's what I've been told in the past. 

Anyway, I used Euphoria up.  It only works with my chemistry if it's freezing outside.  With nearly 2 months of frost I've been able to liberally spray it and not overpower people around me.  Well, no one's kept their distance.  I like the flacon so I'll keep it but I won't re-purchase.

I have a couple to use this upcoming Spring-Summer and fragrances isn't something I want to spend money on right now.  It's not essential for me to wear fragrances.  Hub's the one who got me into it when we met.  I never cared before.  Of course I've always used deo. 

Actually, I prefer to smell of cheap Yves Rocher tiara flower and coconut oil.  I can't remember what it's called.  I've used my last bottle up and re-purchase will have to wait.

Music - It's a Dion Dimucci listening Sunday for me. Mainly post Belmonts and the Belmonts phase was so relatively short anyway.  No mentally taxing reading, just random forum and site surfing.   

Sunday so far - I'm trying to relax after having to wash a bunch of jumbo lego blocks up after the oldest one's cold and asthma acted up on him and he couldn't keep it all inside until he got out to the bathroom.  So I had a bit of a mess to clean up all over the sitting area near the TV. 

Angel wrote on Feb 7^th, 2010 at 1:49pm:


While on fathers...Dad called.  Had long talk about music, my inheritance and more music.  We reminisced over The Grassland Bluegrass festival he's taken me to in the past.  Actually, very little of the country I've listened to could've been from the 70s aside from EH.  It would've been the same bluegrass and country my dad listened to growing up.  We talked about the guy with the big "loud" hats uhm...the guy with the country show and Dolly Parton in the early 60s.  'I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open' is also stuck in my mind right now.  I'm so bad on names but whenever my dad mentioned someone I jumped in my chair and exclaimed: "oh yeah!"  I wasn't putting on an act, I really wish I could listen to Flatt&Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe and Foggy Mountain Boys.  I had to ask my dad to send me an e-mail list of other names so I could google them because there were so many "oh yeahs!" and a bit of humming but I couldn't exactly tie the names to songs. 

I'm no expert on anything and I know even less about fx. Honky tonk.  Of course I've heard Hank Williams, George Jones and Ernest Tubb but I really don't know much. 

Other country I used to listen to was Merle Haggard, Dwight Yokam (relatively "new", all is relative), early Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson had his phase in my life too as did that guy who was in one of Emmylou Harris bands but I can't remember his name (ex son in-law to Johnny Cash I think).  I was REALLY big on Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris pre-teen years.  Btw. just been listening to some parts of an old radio autobiography by Waylon Jennings.  Not exactly country by many people's standards but I enjoyed the interview anyway.  I'm pissed off that someone pissed off the uploader so the person won't upload the last chapter.

I really tried to like Leann Rimes, Shania Twain, Brooks and Dunn and Garth Brooks when I first heard them in the 90s.  I gave them a real fair chance and bought more than one CD with each but I don't listen to them now.  Actually, I don't listen to either ladies at all. 

Oh, this is a hair journal!

Hair - Wash, condition, no leave-in for now.  Moved my part a little further left.  I find that if I keep my part in one place too long my hair begins to look unflattering.  completely pulled back or center parted didn't work at all.  I've always had a bit of hair in my face but instead of random different natural lenghts, I thrive with the long angled "bangs" for now. 

The oldest one is home with some asthma, coughing and occassionally he throws up.  I hope I can turn this around to send him to school within the next few days before the winter vacation next week. 

Inheritance - My dad keeps talking about those four banjos, the guitar and the pedal steel guitar.  I find the prospect of learning how to play, not to mention tune a pedal steel guitar very intimidating.  Lets just start with the guitar.  He had a three tone starbust guitar (can't remember brand or make) that he sold to a friend.  Now he's got a "cheap" $1400 black Gibson with fiber something body but the neck is wood that plays both as an accoustic or electrical.  He thinks it would be a good beginner guitar because "it plays itself".  Yeah right, until I get my hands on it.